Working on a new Activity Cap, I tried to do something fancy to fix an issue. That’s when the solution became worse than the problem.

When The Solution Is Worse Than The Problem

I had some left over yarn from the latest Activity Cap (see below). So I decided to see if I could make a headband using this yarn (the headband portion of this pattern is a two-layer fabric). I got halfway through the headband and decided I would play yarn chicken.

But…just in case I lost this game of chicken (which seemed likely), I decide to put in a safety-net (what do you call it??…a lifeline or something). The purl row of stitches is done on a smaller needle, and so I figured…”Why not just leave the smaller needle in the work and knit up from there on the bigger needle?” Great idea, right?

Not so much. Knitting into these stitches was a pain. The two size circulars were slightly different lengths which caused all sorts of issues. And of course I started knitting the second row after the safety-net with the safety-net needle tip. Fuck!

I ended up just pulling out my safety-net. It would have been faster ripping back and re-knitting a couple of rows rather than deal with this annoyance.

See? The solution was more of a problem than a help.

As it turned out, I don’t have enough yarn to make a headband.

So I’m considering making a different color stripe at the top of the headband.

Hive-mind…I summon thee!  Which of these colors would you use to knit a stripe into a headband that will go up for sale on my craft show table?

I will knit whichever color gets suggested the most and then blame you all if it doesn’t look good.

Current Knitting

I finished the Activity Cap from the last post.

I love the deep, right colors of the yarn main yarn in this hat. It’s also reversible for hiking in the woods during hunting season.

I also finished a second Activity Hat (also reversible for hunting season).

They’re both reversible if  you don’t get close enough to anyone to let them see the offending purl bump ridge.